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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798" Lines 51-113.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is employed when the speaker calls the view "food" for future years (line 66)?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Verbal irony.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Symbolism.

2. What is emphasized by the unusual word order in line 78's "What then I was"?
(a) The speaker's ego.
(b) The speaker's eccentricity.
(c) The speaker's philosophical nature.
(d) The speaker's distance from the past.

3. What technique is employed when the speaker says he cannot "paint" the person he used to be?
(a) Synecdoche.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Metaphor.

4. What idea is conveyed by the details listed toward the end of the fourth verse paragraph?
(a) Nature is far more mysterious than most people understand.
(b) Although essentially amoral, nature can still teach humans important lessons.
(c) All things are unified and guided by a single spiritual force.
(d) It is natural for people to get more philosophical and less emotional as they age.

5. What "still sad music" does the speaker hear when he looks at the landscape (93)?
(a) The "still sad music of philosophy."
(b) The "still sad music of humanity."
(c) The "still sad music of the past."
(d) The "still sad music of the spheres."

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of confusion does the speaker find himself able to shrug off when he remembers the landscape?

2. What technique is used in lines 100-101: "And the round ocean and the living air,/ And the blue sky, and in the mind of man"?

3. What is the primary rhetorical function of the alliteration in line 65, "Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts"?

4. Which is the best definition of "perplexity" in the context of line 62?

5. What modern description might we give of the state that the speaker describes toward the end of the second verse paragraph?

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